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(Circulation. 1997;95:1974.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Marked Calcified Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Osamu Nakajima, MD; Ikuo Sano, MD; Hisashi Akioka, MD

From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Nissei Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

Correspondence to Osamu Nakajima, MD, the First Department of Internal Medicine, Nissei Hospital, 3-8, 6-chome, Itachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.

	Introduction

 
An 83-year-old woman presented with chest discomfort. When she was 50 years of age, she had been hospitalized because of acute myocardial infarction of the anteroseptal wall. An ECG showed an abnormal image characteristic of anteroseptal cardiac aneurysm. A plain chest film (A and B) showed a marked calcification on the left ventricular silhouette. An MR image of the heart (C) showed thinning of the left ventricular wall. The patient's overall condition improved after treatment with isosorbide mononitrates and diuretics.

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	Footnotes

 
The editor of Images in Cardiovascular Medicine is Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, MD, Chief, Department of Pathology, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, and Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine.

Circulation encourages readers to submit cardiovascular images to Dr Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, 6720 Bertner Ave, MC 4-265, Houston, TX 77030.